First Ad Astra Clip Takes Brad Pitt to the Moon as Tickets Go on Sale

The premiere of Advert Astra is simply weeks away, and 20th Century Fox has launched a particular preview to up the thrill. The clip offers a fast have a look at the action-filled “Moon Rover” sequence and provides a couple of extra particulars concerning the movie’s distinctive setting.

Starring Brad Pitt, Advert Astra is a paranoid thriller in house that follows Roy McBride (Pitt) on a mission throughout an unforgiving photo voltaic system to uncover the reality about his lacking father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.

The charming new clip opens with our essential character, Roy, getting ready to journey throughout the moon’s floor to the “far side launch complex.” It isn’t a simple activity, which Sean Blakemore’s Willy Levant makes clear when he says this.

“We’ve been having trouble with pirates since September. Some countries been giving them safe haven. They’ll take hostages or go for our rovers. It’s like the Wild West out there.”

Our protagonist units off with fellow astronauts, and as Roy admires the “big blue marble” that’s the Earth within the distance, unidentified rovers instantly strategy them. Two allied rovers go down and Roy is pressured to take the drivers seat when one in every of his males is shot. With a puncture in his swimsuit, Roy continues on. He is outnumbered and the enemies are closing in fast. The clip ends with Roy, simply earlier than he reaching his vacation spot, getting hit. With a digicam rigged to the rover, he spins off the ledge. Regardless of the motion parts, nice care is put in direction of the tone and setting of the movie with minimal rating and a gradual movement crash.

It will mark director James Grey’s (The Misplaced Metropolis of Z, The Immigrant) first giant scale science fiction mission, and it appears to be like to have the best staff behind it. Grey is working from a script he co-wrote with Ethan Gross in addition to serving as producer. Cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema (Dunkirk, Interstellar) helped create the epic, gorgeous visuals, and the movie is produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner Anthony Katagas, Rodrigo Teixeira and Arnon Milchan.

This will likely be one of many first big-budget movies to be launched since Walt Disney Studios introduced it might be clearing a lot of Fox’s slate after the disappointing efficiency from Darkish Pheonix. The media conglomerate inherited the movie in its $71.three billion greenback acquisition, together with a spattering of different franchises together with Avatar, Aliens, X-Males, Deadpool, Planet of the Apes, Die Onerous, Ice Age and extra.

Advert Astra hits theaters on September 20, 2019, and can arrive in gorgeous IMAX as nicely. You’ll be able to pre-order tickets now at adastramovie.com, and take a look at the brand new clip on 20th Century Fox’s Official Youtube channel.

Matters: Advert Astra, Disney

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